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Re: Buster install



On Sb, 13 iul 19, 18:15:25, Curt Howland wrote:
> On Saturday 13 July 2019, Ansgar Burchardt was heard to say:
> 
> |   The first difference is probably the most user visible one. Doing
> |   plain 'su' is a really bad idea for many reasons, so using 'su -' 
> is
> |   strongly recommended to always get a newly set up environment 
> similar
> |   to a normal login.
> 
> Well, that's a remarkably stupid thing to change.

In your opinion.

As I see it the new su (behaviour) clearly distinguishes between 
"preserve environment" and "don't preserve environment".

What's the point of preserving the environment, but resetting PATH?

Kind regards,
Andrei
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